Blue Bird is hoping to create a company that offers a full range of logistics services, including warehousing, to big-name clients such as convenience store chain 7-Eleven and consumer products giant P&G.

The location of the São Paulo control tower is beneficial as many of TMC’s current and prospective customers are large multinational shippers that have a presence in South America and are looking to achieve global supply chain visibility and control.

Harold Coxson, attorney at Washington, D.C.-based Ogletree Deakins law firm, gives a history of the PMA-ILWU dispute and how it could lead to the government stepping in to stop a lockout or worker's strike.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's new leftist government has sought to cancel key terms of Athens' bailout program from international lenders, including what it calls the "crime" of selling off strategic national assets.

The PMA issued an ultimatum of “continued slowdowns or gold-standard wages and benefits,” offering a three percent year-on-year wage increase for ILWU full-time workers, following three months of port slow-downs across the US West Coast.

What’s at stake is the re-establishment of a thriving trade and investment relationship between the two countries that was interrupted by Castro’s revolution, and then aided and abetted by the embargo according to international trade policy expert.

Wheels, founded in 1988, provides intermodal and truck brokerage services throughout the U.S. and Canada along with third party logistics solutions and value added warehouse and distribution service offerings in support of U.S. shippers looking to access

China has been delivering on promises to open more cities to international trade, allowing meat importers to cut freight costs and get meat to hugely populous central regions of the country, according to globalmeatnews.com.

The Singapore-based provider of logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil, has signed new agreements totaling 37,000 square meters (398,000 square feet) with two third-party logistics (3PL) providers in China.

The I-69 Thumb Region is within a 5-hour freight travel time to a market that comprises 32 million residents, including cities such as Chicago, Toronto, Buffalo, Sault Ste. Marie, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.

The devaluation of the rouble has caused a slump in Turkish fruit and vegetable exports to Russia, with data published by the West Mediterranean Exporters’ Union (BAIB) revealing a 20 percent fall in the volume shipped during November and December.